http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=154093More Nigel Best:thanks mike - i
agree with you too! [just to clarify for anyone who may be getting confused:
i didnt write the bit below [about frode], my/our correspondent did and
i ask that correspondent: where does jj and sd use frode and who or what
is da [excuse my thickness]? is frode=fraud? but we can cut thru all this
by saying that jj certainly rejected the mysticism of yeats, blavatsky
et al, and had a laugh at it, and at the celtic twilight and the stephen
of the villanelle and the joyce of chamber music somewhat - but only for
its imbalance, its rejection of earth and the earthy, the 'kal his course'
594 [the callous course of mother nature, the kal, czech, 'bilge, bilgewater
filth feces ooze sludge mire sediment settlement silt feculence sewage
scum dregs muck mud slag slurry' of life - the stuff that roderick oconnor
drinks and slumps to throne in one of the 4 or 5 uber-seminal passages
of fw - equals christ drinking the cup of persecution and socrates] the
warful dune's battam 594 [awful dane's bottom], the semitary of somnionia
594 [the cemetery/seminary of sleepyland - humanity not awake, not buddha
[=awake]], the dimdom done 594 [opposite of the kingdom come, the dim-dom
done, the unenlightened actions done, and judgements - dom=judgement] my
studies of 594 and 300-2 show he absorbed a lot from yeats and russell
etc - there is an extensive study of the mysticism in fw, i cant remember
names - some wellknown fw-study name, maybe tindall - heck, j said fw was
a portrait of the dark night of the soul - from the 'silent' j, you cant
get a bigger clue than that - what he rejected was the false mysticism
and the pointless mysticism of 'the big words that make us so unhappy'
- fw is a recast of mysticism scientifically in the little words [trivia]
that make us cheerful - as you would expect from a poet - and as you would
expect from a thinker 'steeled in the school of aquinas' and 'peripatetic
scholarship' - but modern man is going to be shocked and disappointed to
learn that he didnt reject plato - he balanced him with aristotle/aquinas
- he rejected the stephen of the villanelle, but not the true mysticism
- the true mysticism is simply the higher abstraction that lesser intellects
fear to tread - or cannot tread without getting mistmad on parnassus -
and end up counting angels on pinheads the present age is all for the opposite
of mysticism - starting from scratch with observations - starting with
'sniffer he snout' [594] nose to ground [=kal/kali] like a bloodhound -
and that is healthy - but joyce didnt throw the baby out with the bathwater
- he didnt forget that spatialisation/specialisation without synthesis/abstraction
until you reach ONE [life, whole] was merely fragmentation and death -
life unwhole, life shattered, life merely quantitative, the nausea of sartre's
character seeing someone reading an encyclopedia a to z - plurality is
hell - plurality is disorder, chaos, despair - modern man - existentialism
j has in fw done a tremendous thing - a TREMENDOUS thing - a hugely revolutionary
thing - he has drawn a map of the entire, vast, trillion-leaved tree of
life, of unity, using philology as tailor's stitching - taken every single
one of the pebbles [shaun-mind] of human [finite] mind [concepts/words]
and stitched them together into the one tree [mixing metaphors is entirely
appropriate - to show they are only metaphors - god, for instance, is only
a metaphor for god] each one of the circa 100,000 multiwords in fw takes
several words/things and shows that they are in reality one thing - we
are revealed via philology the sameness lurking hidden behind appearances
of plurality a quick example: kal, hindi, time, death - we, in our fragmentation
think time is one thing and death another - but here is a word that means
both - here is an indication that billions of people over 1000s of years
[vos populi, vox dei - securas iudicat orbes terrarem] have been happy
with a word that is indifferent to the differences - that sees the sameness,
the oneness and not the twoness of time/death - time and death are not
in an absolute twoness, they are in a oneness and twoness - they are part
the same, part different - [changelessness is timelessness - 'time stood
still', ie, nothing moving - moving=change of position= a type of change,
which is a 'death' of the pre-change status quo - temporality is mortality
- to take this a little further to an exciting philosophical point: change
is what we call life, the thing we do not want to part from - and this
change/life is nothing but deaths/disappearances of one thing and birth/appearances
of another thing - so death is life - life and death are identical twins
- they are, behind appearances, below the differences, the same thing -
so what we have been fearing, is what we love and fear to lose - so there
can be no departure from life/death/change/time - in the clearer view it/they
are one and this one thing that has no opposite cannot change - life/death/change/time
is immortal - wow! - i hope someone is reading this - wow! [there is nothing
shocking or radical about the oneness of time/death - it is no different
from the oneness of cat and dog - just at a higher level in the abstraction
pyramid - or nearer the trunk on the tree of life] just like einstein said
there is not time and space but spacetime - or like e=mc squared, which
implies an identity, a subterranean sameness, of energy and matter - clearly,
what we think is two can be one - two branches of the tree of life can
merge - and thus step by step the whole trillion leaves are sown into one
- all is one - with a 100,000 multiwords - thus looking up dictionaries
is at the very FULCRUM of fw - because only thus can you get an identity
of many and one and the dictionaries - any language - are exhaustive lists
of these stitches/identities/twone-nesses er, um, hope that clarifies things
- [100,000 academics lying on their stomachs in their offices with pillows
over their heads going lalalalalalala-i-cant-hear-this-haha-i-cant-hear-you]
da? 'deplores mystical thought' - and joyce said 'it was the mysticism
[in the odyssey] that attracted me' [when he was a boy] deplores mystical
thought - yes - like george russell, who wished people to notice and worship
[=worthship] the earth goddess and edited an agriculture magazine - [early
hippy, backtothelander, but backtomotherearth had started with the forest
trees of the gothic cathedral and the return of the magnamater/mother nature
in the west rose window and tristan and iseult in the forest in a 'house
without corners' - return of the smooth gentle graceful circle against
the cruel cutting cross - and the exaltation of earthly love in the provencal
culture and in the medieval romances - in 2 hundred years 100s of these
vast buildings going up all over europe - casting out the norman darkness
and bringing in more and more *coloured* light till the glasshouse openness
of beauvais - and nobility pulling the stonewagons in HER honour, soul-full,
heart-full with HER freedom - and fw revolves round this, the 12th, century
- 1132] ihim - ahem - a fruit IS a seed, mike mike sent: -------------------
*** --On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 12:56 PM +1300 "Nigel Best" *** wrote: [IE,
SENT, SOMEONE ELSE WROTE] *** *** > which is why all religion is frode,
to use the term *** > which SD *** > *** and JJ both borrow from DA, and
why Joyce deplores mystical *** > thought *** > *** throughout not only
the fiction but also very plainly in the *** > critical *** > *** writings
after about 1903, when he grew out of the adolescent *** > Young Man ***
> *** stage [again for those who don't want to see it in the fiction].
*** > *** *** > *** >- it *** > *** >is implicit in the beginning of the
bible where creation is *** > synonymous *** > *** >with separation and
polarity - therefore precreation is *** > something to *** > *** >do with
preseparation [or uncreation and unseparation] *** > *** *** > *** Yes,
because the Bible is mistaken on this point (also an *** > extremely lively
*** > *** point of debate between all of the above figures): there is not
*** > an actual *** > *** beginning to all existence. There never was a
precreation and a *** > creation. *** > *** No doubt it is true as you
said yesterday that 0 is 1 in the end *** > but there *** > *** is no actual
end either. Joyce is clear on this point too (page *** > one of *** > ***
Proteus etc.). *** *** Excuse my eve's dropping on your conversation. ***
*** The paradox is that, while Joyce seems to abhor mysticism, Finnegan's
Wake *** is one of the great mystical tracts ever written (using as prototypes
The *** Book of Kells and the Egyptian Book of the Dead, two great mystical
*** tracts). Clearly he abhorred the other-worldly mysticism of Yeats and
all *** -- but he obviously adores the 'body mysticism' he describes with
glee in *** FW. FW is about the dream and about life-after-death. That
is what *** mysticism is about. *** *** The dualism of eyes and ears in
FW acts as an emblem for 'precreation' and *** 'creation' (to use Andrew's
terms): the ears being the eternally open *** doors; and the eyes being
the periodically open doors of Day, Light, *** creation of the world. The
ears weave a wicker-like picture of the world *** in which sounds overlap
and weave together a kind of phonographic picture *** of the world (round
and round) -- and the ears actually feed the world of *** creation and
awaken the eyes to the separation, the dualism, whereby the *** world of
forms is created and nourished. The eye (the I) is the separation *** of
the Individual from the Whole and the development of the Hero *** consciousness
which, in fact, fuels the evolutionary model inherent in *** Nature. ***
*** I don't understand the conclusion that the 'Bible is wrong' in this
*** symbolic description of this dualism. The Bible begins with the Dawn,
with *** creation, generation, the Light, the eyes being opened. At least
it does *** after a short mystical treatment of the 'precreation'. Genesis
is about *** the Dawn and the birth of the nature of the National God of
Day. Sex, *** birth, and pro-creation of the future. *** *** Radio waves
and sound waves (the food of the ears) are local during the *** day; and
they are international (intergalactic) during the night. This is *** an
emblem of the duality between internationalism (post- and pre-creation)
*** and nationalism (creation). Between non-body experience (FW is about
the *** corpse buried under the earth, waiting for the rebirth of the body)
of *** Night; and the body experience of the Day. *** *** The tailor gives
the soul a new suit of clothes for the day (a regenerated *** body); the
soul is a 'misfit' at dusk. He doesn't fit in to his society *** any longer;
his clothes or image no longer fit. He has no body. *** *** Shaun is the
body-soul aspect of the unity and Shem if the soul-spirit (or *** soul
anti-matter) aspect of the unity. Shaun and Shem are, in fact, the ***
same entity, in a different light, in a different body-type and time ***
period. Shaun becomes Shem and Shem becomes Shaun. They are the Northern
*** and Southern Hemispheres. Reflections of one another. The motor of
*** evolution/involution. *** *** The idea that '0 is 1 in the end' is
not true, in fact. 1 is never zero. *** 1 may return to zero, metaphorically,
as a fruit returns to a seed, but a *** fruit and a seed are never the
same, by definition -- even as they share a *** common history. I would
agree that zero can represent 'precreation' and 1 *** can represent 'creation'
but to say that 0 is 1 in the end is like saying *** that the son is the
mother in the end. The son never is the mother -- *** either that or words
and concepts mean nothing. The son may be absorbed by *** the mother (Mother
Earth, symbolically) in the end; but the son ceases *** being the 1 when
he is not the 1. *** *** And what is 'the end' anyway. There is no end
in this world view. The *** zero, the void, the post- or pre-creation,
is a stage in the process, no *** more real than any other stage. The enlightenment
of the mind simply *** precedes the enlightenment of the body which simply
precedes the *** enlightenment of the mind again. That's how we evolve.
*** *** Immortality concerns the individual's and the society's and the
species' *** ability to keep both the matter-soul body and the soul-antimatter
body *** vital for when each is needed. (Shaun and Shem.) *** *** Joyce
loved to mystify with his use of language. Arguing exact meanings in ***
Joyce is somewhat against the nature of the work, since each word, each
*** syllable is a prism through which a light is shown, illuminating a
plethora *** of lights and light-meanings. Puns and allusions are, by their
nature, *** difficult to 'pin down'. FW is a magical light show (the light
generated *** from the inside, the way the flashlight fish generates its
own light in the *** deep parts of the ocean): dream-light, running across
one's closed eyelids. *** I think of the book as a man running through
the dark with a flashlight in *** his mouth. Word-images shake with every
step, creating a magical effect *** but certainly an inexact picture of
reality. I don't argue that Joyce's *** web of meanings is inexact -- but
the surface pictures generated by light *** shining through syllables certainly
is. And the exactness of Joyce's *** meanings comes more from Joyce's letters
and the numerous excavations *** written by FW analysts than it does from
FW itself. *** *** I think Joyce's understanding would have become, over
time, that Shaun *** appears when the society needs Shaun; and Shem appears
when the society *** needs Shem. And when Shem needs to be overthrown,
Shaun overthrows him. *** And when Shaun needs to be overthrown, Shem overthrows
him. *** *** With all the corruption of form that religion as a political
entity goes *** through, this understanding remains the foundation of real
religion. That *** the laws of nature exist for the benefit of life. And
this is the basis of *** all true faith. *** *** MJC *** *** Michael J.
Clark *** Administrative Assistant for Curricula *** Architecture Department
*** 210 Lawrence Hall *** University of Oregon *** Eugene, OR 97403 ***
541 346 1434 *** fax 541 346 3626 energy cannot NOT be in a body - we know
energy incarnates - there is all this incarnation around us - therefore
it is the nature of energy to create/incarnate - and energy is immortal
and changeless [as science tells us] , so creation/creating/incarnation
is immortal - perhaps that is why the book of common prayer says 'world
without end' [which is rather surprising, since they are always talking
about eternity vs mortality/world, end of the world, judgement day etc]
sir tristram = flower = viola THEREFORE he is a man - which is incarnate
energy/god/heaven/nirvana/tao/io/isis/amen/formless/brahma/the great spirit
etc because a vertebrate is both a cat and a dog does not mean a vertebrate
is disincarnate [plato's mistake, which, taken up by the christian church,
removed heaven/god from earth, made religion cheerless - since religion
is re-ligio=rejoining, the separating of god and man is antireligious]
] - a vertebrate is as incarnate as a cat and a dog - indeed, is a cat
and a dog - to help human consciousness avoid this platonic error, [that
has created the wasteland of unlove, unlife for 2000 years] joyce creates
a new language mode in which 'vertebrate' is replaced with catdog, man
is replaced with violer d'amores - the multiword, which keeps its feet
on the EARTH, in particulars, but means abstractions/universals, without
abstracting from the earth [abstract means to draw away] - hence 'particular-universal'
first page ch10 - the multiword MARRIES partic and universal [hence 'radium
wedding of [night] and [morning] and the dawn of peace, pure, perfect and
perpetual, waking the weary of the world' page 222 [!!!!] wow! when he
wrote those [slightly selfsendingup] words, he knew what a knowledgepower
he had in his hands - no wonder he wrote 'a hundred cares, a tithe of troubles
and is there one who understands me' 627 so tristram/viola/violet/violence
is a more precise, 'error-retardant' way of speaking of 'man' [which is
one of the big words that make us so unhappy - because they trap us in
unreality/unconsciousness] because we experience violets, violas, and tristrams
[=particular men] rather than men, 'sir tristram, violer d'amores' says
more, holds more energy, which is truth - because we experience 'cats'
and 'dogs' rather than vertebrates, catdog says more than vertebrate [or
animal or quadruped] [ezra pound showed he understood this, in abc of reading]
so brickbrain means: what bricks and brains have in common, which is existence,
atoms, energy, incarnation, thingness, mortality of form and immortality
of invisible essence - the further two words are apart on the tree of all
meanings, the closer to the trunk the joint meaning will be [the trunk
is not at a distance from the leaves in reality, only in the tree metaphor]
------------------- *** Em Quinta 14 Março 2002 00:09, the matrix
traced a message in which Nigel *** Best wrote: *** >i feel [que sais-je?]
shem is natural man, the poets, who ceaselessly *** >try to save humanity
from the diseases of artificiality and society [i *** >would like to recall
that sentence in one of the early essays: *** >'poets...[save us from]
artificial...6000 years...one heartbeat' - *** >does anyone have it?] ***
*** superb, nigel, wonderful text. *** thanks for the delight/pleasure/joy{ce}
you have just given me ! *** are you trying to awake us ? *** *** nig ***
if sth can be two other things at the same time, then that sth cannot be
in a *** body, cannot be incarnated in two things at the same time, ie,
if sir *** tristram is a musical instrument and a flower then sir tristram
isn't really *** a man, ie, he is an idea or a kind of energy or an impulse.
so let's say he's *** an energy or `spirit' or a vibration, then it makes
sense to think that *** energy is never wasted and never disappears and
is everywhere and in *** everybody [einstein]! what's the difference between
a man and a fly ? *** according to the latest scientific researches, almost
nothing ! what's the *** difference among a man, a tree, a colour, a concrete
wall, a ray of light ? *** a difference in the way they vibrate/flutter.
the difference is in the outer *** skins/layers, but if we look at them,
deep down at their essence, they are *** the same. *** [isn't it in the
old testament: the earth is everywhere the same but, even *** so, it can
create a huge variety of so many different things !] and, as you *** wrote,
the tree is the same, but it produces many many fruits and branches ***
and leaves,etc.and yet, it is the same tree. *** so, tristram is the first
flow of energy that is turned into two others, *** flower and instrument.
*** so, if he is the primary energy that creates other two, ie, if he sires
other *** two, he's still a part of those two, he's in them. *** number
three is very meaningful: thesis, atithesis, synthesis; ego, superego,
*** id. *** wow, i don't know if i can go on... *** maybe not now... ***
it was your text that made me write all this. and your text is great, but
*** mine may be just a load of nonsense. *** even so, thank you. i'll get
back to tristram's story now. *** *** -- *** * * * * * * * * * * *** cyberhades
*** LINUX user number: 217052 *** icq number: 132859539 *** línguas:
Português/English/Esperanto *** homepage: www.cyberhades.hpg.com.br
*** more in one page of finnegans wake [deepstudied] *** than in the whole
of life [skipped over] *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *** agape-love-caritas
recent human experience has shown that objectivity ends in subjectivity
- that objectivity unmasked is subjectivity and subjectivity if done right
ends in objectivity - and that is the joyce way - i suspect the opposite
of the deconstructionist way - i suspect, the blind leading the blind physics
has gone so far that it has found itself coming out at the back of the
vedas joyce says that if you want to get to heaven, the only successful
way is to dig a hole and bury yourself in the earth, to plant yourself
in worldly experience - this will give you something to push off from,
it will give you the strength of bread to beat your wings hard enough -
trying to rise in the sky will only lead to collapsing on the earth sick
us a sock with some sediment in it for the sake of our darning wives [300]
- ie, bring us down to earth - to see shit is to not eat it - to blind
yourself to shit is to eat it all the time - people who solve problems
are the heroes the humble the violets who will look the problem in the
eye - thats how ionian ulysses invented the wooden horse ood question notice
that they dont change character just swop capitals for italics, left for
right perhaps means that shaun in caps is dominant in the first half, shem
dominant in the second half [i feel the middle bit is issy] shauny accademic
knowledge in the first half - divided up academically/artificially/'inorganically'
into geography, history etc - shem a single, multi-ramifying image which
goes to the heart of the matter why is shem irreverent? and shaun formal?
shaun is egobound, trying to make something that flatters his ego, builds
something imposing aweing flattering - he thinks he knows something if
he constructs a category, whether there is anything in the category or
not - if he can look at a shelf of books or a library and say mine, ive
read all those, he is content shem undercuts that, tries to restore an
engagement with the real, by making the ego-game unsustainable the four
chapters of shems 'book' deal with knowledge=marriage - knowledge of opposite
sex, nolij of magnamater/life/god/nature - ch 9 is prior to knowledge:
fumbling stumbling curiosity excitement failure and humiliation ch10 is
success for shem, not for shaun - ch 11 is the consequences - running off
with the man's daughter/getting married/eloping ie love - and in shauns
case the killing of the father - ie hate - both in their way inherit the
kingdom ch 12 is shem become tristan sailing off with beloved into the
lovedeath which is marriage in the first 3 chapters, shem picks up one
more character [shaun, shem and ham till in ch 12 there are 'three men
in him' and he is tristan, the young hce shaun's book - the winter of the
soul - plays out his impotence, his solipsism, his guilt, his sterility,
his hypocrisy, his poison, his decadent dreaminess and dislocation from
reality and life - notice the frequency of the words would and could the
parents book corresponds to the theocratic period up to 1132 ad and the
trunk of the human body and the trunk of the tree of life [summer of the
piscean age] - shems book to the medieval period [aristocratic or oligarchy]
and the generative centre of the body and limbs of tree of life: medieval
romances and troubadours and worship of magnamater ['disguised' as mary]
[autumn] - shaun's book to the democratic, legs of body, and leaves of
tree of life [winter] - the 4th book is the fruit and seed of the tree,
the whole of fw and life in capsule in the daughters womb -------------------
*** In a message dated 3/13/02 8:22:49 PM Mountain Standard Time, *** nigel@orcon.net.nz
writes: *** *** *** > i feel [que sais-je?] shem is natural man, the poets,
who ceaselessly *** > try to save humanity from the diseases of artificiality
and society [i *** > would like to recall that sentence in one of the early
essays: *** > 'poets...[save us from] artificial...6000 years...one heartbeat'
- *** > does anyone have it?] *** > *** > shaun, i would say, is artificiality
'distuned' to nature - the exxons *** > and the bopals and the inorganic
fertilisers and broadcast *** > insecticidism that shem-rachel carson spoke
against - *** > *** Elaine: You have made me wonder why in the Homework
chapter of FW, that *** halfway through, Shem and Shaun seem to change
places. *** Why. Is it to point out that they are not as opposite as they
seem? *** *** s cyn does this seem like a tune that would throw a woman
with greta's apparent experience [furey, tuberculosis, rain, etc] into
a long heartbreaking tear session? - it doesnt seem to compute quite -
the version i had the music of, went up higher at the climax part of each
verse i still think that a tenor with a 'pregnant' belly singing a womans
song going for emotion and the high notes badly would be a laugh and it
would take a lot for gabriel to suppress his scorn and ribaldry - it would
be just he thing that j would object to in the irish revival - excessive
solemnity, po attittudes, interdiction of humour and sense, mindless endless
idolatry of past [in 'a book of ireland' ed frank oconnor [fontana] frank
chooses two that reflect j's attitude: 'on behalf of some irishmen not
followers of tradition' [our lips would gladlier hail the firstborn of
the coming race than the last splendour of the gael - cf ibsens they call
me a conservative in which he says he is so not a consv that he would blow
up noahs ark - in virew of the fact that 594 is saturated with russell
and stephens etc and irish forwardlooking, i would guess that the comeing
594.02 would be this coming of coming race - and all the other cases of
'coming/come in' in fw are the same - [as well as being orgasm] the other
is patrick kavanagh [b1905] 'memory of brother michael' 'when shakespeare
[etc] were writing the future of england page by page a nettlewild grave
was irelands stage' - [cf the nettles in rain on rahoon, the poem that
portrays nora/greta's sorrow] - 'culture is always something that was,
something pedants can measure, skull of bard, thigh of chief, depth of
dried up river, shall we be thus forever? shall we be thus forever? apparently
frank thought that there was good reason to republish these poems in 1959
[the only joyce he gives room for is the portrait parnell christmas party
- despite the enormous modernity and futurelooking of ulysses and the wake
- if he was afraid the book wouldnt sell in ireland if he included much
joyce, he could have included some of the 'nice' and easy and very irish
bits of u and fw - note the backwardlookingness of the parnell episode
- or some of the more modern poems of pomes - he includes 4 of his own
pieces and 36 pieces with himself as translator! - does that rate as hypocrisy
and betrayal?] i still think that a greta/nora pregnancy and coming to
dublin to escape her violent father's wrath and losing the baby or having
it adopted would be sufficient to explain the big cry that is enough to
drive her into an exhausted childlike sleep then michael furey would be
the cherry on the icing, the extra thing that points the sadness - his
hopeless passion [would a healthy lusty girl be interested in a 'weed'?],
her betrayed love that joyce writes into 'the dead' subtley through the
song good theory? nig reflections on io it seemed that viol was developed
from io - io - ion - fion - viol we pronounce viol vuy-ol [uy as in buy]
but how is io pronounced? in english we pronounce it uy-ow [ow as in bow]
i think, but in greek it would have been pronounced ee-o or ee-or or ee-ow,
i think i read somewhere that io is related to ia and therefore to jah
of jahweh [and compare ai, japanese and new zealand maori, love - =god]
and note 293 'aiaiaiai, Antiann' - the string enables it to say ia as well
as ai - it is linked with ann - and has 8 letters the number of ann/magnamater
all this made me think that the essential common element is a diphthong,
and the glide from one vowel to the next is called on to 'portray' the
something-like-nothing of tao, the thing that must not, cannot be named
[because all names have form or character and tao does not - the tao that
can be named is not the tao - those who know do not speak - 'jahweh' must
never be said but replaced by adonai] cf the use of smoke and steam coming
from rice and wind to mean 'spirit' - in hebrew, japanese, etc cf the development
of the word bar [fw594] from wheat to beer - the good or god is gathered
[bar=assembly, storehouse - cf barn] or 'distilled' - the field is 'distilled'
from the natural environment, the stalks are 'distilled' from the field,
the grainheads are 'distilled' from the stalks, the kernel is 'distilled'
from the husk and bran, the beer is 'distilled' from the grainmash, and
the spirits can be distilled from the beer - in all this development, the
good or god [bar=good, god] is being retained and the matter and visibles
are being decreased - the spirit/god/good is still in the beer - clearly,
because you get 'elevated', you start to feel good - but the god is reduced
to a colour, invisibly small particles - and if you go the gin or vodka
way, you can get the pure invisibility of god - we still talk of spirits
and spirituous liquors - so in all these things - the diphthongs, the smoke,
steam, wind, and alcohol - we have a something like nothing - something
that exists that doesnt exist the diphthong, we dont have in om - but we
do have in aum, the alternate form of om - and even om when strung out
as they do has a subtle shift from o to i - and notice the consonants that
these vowels are joined with are continuable consonants like n or m or
semivowels like y and w - ion, om, aum, yahweh - still a little true of
ruach [hebrew] - y is very close to ee and w is very close to oo as in
moon - say ee-ess and yes, say oo-et and wet - or french oui=wee this diphthong
theory means that one can jump to 'on' [=anu=heliopolis], one would suspect
that on/anu[heliopolis], aun/avon/aven [hebrew, ?english], anu/danu [middle
east and irish] and ana/anna [persian, gaelic=existence] and diana are
related ust think: with joyce giving the elements from many sources like
tristram, the reader getting the universal themes that run through all
the sources joyce gives - joyce is using the great works of all literary
history worldwide to illustrate and show the universal themes - and the
particular literary cases give colour particularity and interest - and
definition - to the universals joyce 'paints' - he is using tristram dante
homer shakespeare as paints to paint the universals - we see them more
clearly because j gives examples from many sources, and we see the examples
more clearly in the light of the universals - ie, the meta-patterns joyce
shows act as superglossaries on the various works of great literature -
we read them as deeply as joyce could thanks to fw - super-amazing!] the
more examples joyce can feed into his mix, the more clear it is that the
pattern he paints is a universal [because a greater universal will pop
up more places] - the more examples he can give, the better the universal
is defined and painted - the more clearly the universal is painted, the
more the universal informs and glosses the particular example cf ulysses
and the odyssey - as two examples of the one universal, the universal is
more clearly painted - the universal thus described.defined.portrayed then
informs the reading of both ulysses and odyssey - we are not just seeing
leaves of the 2 books, but the twig.branch.limb structure within them all
books up to the time of ulysses were stuck in being leaves-only - and people
put the leaves together in myriad [wrong] ways - eg the myriad interpretations
of the bible - but fw illuminates the implicit structure in all great boks
and we can put them together the right way and see the universals are the
same in all books - thus we see the universals and these are the constants
in life which constitute the 'point of order/pint of porter' that gives
life shape meaning peace happiness stability laughter - and true dance
can flourish only with this sense of stability constants order comfort
pattern your energy energises me! nig ------------------- *** sir tristram
de liones /lainz/ *** in thomas mallory's le morte d'arthur. *** his mother
says: *** Ah, my little son, thou hast murdered thy mother, and therefore
I suppose, *** thou that art a murderer so young, thou art full likely
to be a manly man in *** thine age. And because I shall die of the birth
of thee, I charge thee, *** gentlewoman, that thou pray my lord, King Meliodas,
that when he is *** christened let call him Tristram, that is as much to
say as a sorrowful *** birth. *** the name relates to sadness.but it's
interesting that she says he will be `a *** manly man'. it reminds me of
what you said about j's characterization of `the *** womanly man'. ***
so, his father is absent, there's no father when he is born. and he `murders'
*** his mother... symbolically speaking, it might mean sth, although i
don't know *** what it is right now. it seems to me that he is the first
of his kind or sth *** like that. *** his mother dies in a forest, near
a tree. *** tristram forgives his stepmother and saves her from being burnt.
*** he goes to france to learn the language, the deeds of arms, he becomes
a *** harper and gets skilled in many musical instruments [cool!], hawking
and *** hunting. *** sir tristram de liones and sir marhous of ireland
fight on an island. *** in ireland, he says his name is tramtrist. in another
source, ive found *** 'tantris'. [ie, name spelled/pronounced backwards.
it seems jj does it a lot *** in fw.] *** la beale isoud cures him. ***
sir palamides,a saracen, ie, a moor, a muslim. *** sir tristram & isoud
& sir palamedes -->love tri-angle *** sir tristram & an earl's
[segwarides'] wife & king mark --> love tri-angles *** sir tristram
& isoud & mark --> love tri-angle *** [not to mention arthur &
guinevere & lancelot du lake] *** [sir tristram & {viola}musical
instrument & {viola}flower] -> tri-angle *** `love is shown by attention
to detail'. that's what you say. i noticed that *** there are three lines
in the `beginning' of the book. after that comes the *** name sir tristram
in the next paragraph. coincidence? synonymy? well, maybe *** it isn't
important, but the fact is that i never thought about counting up *** those
lines nor had given any attention to them. *** tristram misfortune begins
when he has to fight against sir marhaus, isoud's *** uncle, to defend
cornwall. ie, his battle for the values and love he feels *** for `his'
country ends up troubling his relationship with isoud. *** sir tristram
fights against his uncle and two other knights in an ambush. *** after
that, king mark would pretend he was on good terms with tristram. *** sir
bleoberis asks segwarides' wife as a boon -->another triangle. *** sir
tristram defeats sir blamore so as to defend king anguish of ireland who
*** was accused of treason. he does not kill sir blamore.[here we see how
noble *** and just he is]. *** sir tristram& isoud are prisoners in
the castle pluere, the weeping castle. *** he defeats sir breunor, sir
galahad's father. he then fights against sir *** galahad and defeats him.
*** `as the french book saith' -->the author/narrator refers to his sources,
ie, *** other books. *** dame bragwaine, isoud's maiden, is bound to a
tree for three days in a forest. *** she's saved by sir palamides, who
asks isoud for a boon. the boon turns out *** to be isoud herself. ***
sir tristram fights against sir palamides to get isoud back. *** he is
caught in bed with isoud. he gets hurt and goes to brittany. there he ***
meets king howel's daughter, isoud la blanche mains. it was said she would
*** cure him. and she does cure him. *** tristram defends king howel's
brittany from earl grip and his knights. *** tristram gets married to isoud
le blance mains but doesn't touch her even *** after their marriage. he
still thinks about the other isoud. *** sir lancelot says tristram wasn't
true to la beale isoud. *** sir tristram defeats sir nabon and gives an
island to sir segwarides. *** sir lancelot appears as the white knight.
*** *** [reading is not finished yet. i'm going to read the second volume]
hink that tingsomingenting means 'thing like nothing', which is quite a
lot different from a thing like no other thing thing like nothing seems
to hint that his house is god who is nothing a no-thing, not-a-thing -
shem is ulysses=noman - ulysses=outis-zeus=nothing-god - circle is symbol
of god, nothing [void, tao, io] love and perfection - extremes meet - only
the empty cup can be filled [zen] only the voidman can be filled with the
all - [the hollow men the stuffed men are god] io=10=the phallic man ego
one plus the god nothing, or the one-all that is god plus the nothing that
is man - [ultimately 1=0] unic bar none suggests the 1 and 0 separated
by the bar [the royal divorce] that prevents the whole show disappearing
into the uber-blah shem seems to be all at 300 - shaun seems to acknowledge
this unconsciously, calling shem-dolph fakes hoax and carrotty ie faith
hope and charity and their opposites including carrotty=redhair=the devil
also at 'aequal to yoursell and wanigel to anglyother' - suggests 'i am
that i am' and ?empedocles's spherical man [=man for all seasons, allround
man - becoming zero, he becomes everything - reaching zero, he becomes
the one that includes all - bowing to become nothing he can go through
the 'tiny door' [fw] into the resurrection, as does gabriel in the dead
and bloom: giving up what he loves most - molly - he can fit through the
tiny door of selfannihilation and enter the greater world in which molly
waits for him and gives herself so much more - perfectly - she can countersign
his passport to eternity life is odd, but wonderful in its climaxes,[which
are everpresent in fact, if you can 'read' them] could understand what
i was getting at or if everyone was just thinking i am that kook who writes
reams on one little insignificant thing what a great dream you had - so
jungian do you notice how selfeffacing some dreams are? - they insist:
oh, im not important, dont look at me - and however hard you try you cant
look at the dream i think violet is on the inside - i never thought - it
seems to relate to violet relating to the inward, the spiritual - yes,
the paragrapf on fw3 is a rainbow, of course, - this means that the paragraph
sums up/contains the whole of fw - fw branches into seven areas of life
- which in one direction flow together and are one and in the other direction
flow into greater plurality - all the numbers from 7 to infinity interesting
that violet contains red and blue which are the poles of the rainbow -as
if the rainbow rehearses a cumulation of al the colours travelling from
red to purple - and striking that violet symbolises moderation when it
contains the 2 extremes redfireyang and bluefemalewateryin - everything
falls together 'perfectly' - is this because god wrote it or because poets
thru the ages read it that way? thank you again [j seeing infinity [io]
in the insignificant 'grain of sand', the violet] im still not quite sure
what i am so excited and happy about - i guess it is the coming together
of all the pieces of life - all is one - one isnt wise until one sees the
whole and all the parts simultaneously - the finished jigsaw puzzle - and
then fortunately you get another life with all the pieces in a heap again
to have 'lots of fun' again and again and again! have you red my book 'again!
free at http://nigel.orcon.net.nz? cork called 'athens of ireland' - 'certainly
contributed more than its share of brains' counties of munster reading
left to right, west to east, : clare, tipperary, kilkenny, carlow, wexford
- [2d line] limerick, waterford - [3d line] kerry, cork cashel [middle
of tipperary] was centre of *milesian rule - it was the southern-ireland
tara - the heart of munster the danes were blotting out civilisation -
brian boru, who defeated the danes at clontarf, was from clare - he was
high king of all ireland shannon between clare and limerick - obriens from
here up cork harbour on east coast: queenstown [where the liners leave
for america] - cork - famous steeple bells of shandon - see fw141.04-07
cork people softvoiced, quickspeaking - see fw 140 answer [b] dorhqk: my
plovery soft accents cork and kerry are the best counties of munster -
they are the southern, coastal counties cork and kerry good for yachts
and navies, smuggling - natural arrival point for sailors from the south
- spain, mediterranean - smuggling cigars and wine o'connell and oneill
defeated by mountjoy [elizabeth I] desmond[=south munster] - elizabeth
I caused near complete extermination of the native race - the 1847 famine
was worst in west cork cork alone of the more prosperous counties has kept
the irish speech osullivans from munster - cf sullivans in fw - the 12
- the sullivani - odonoghues too macgillicuddy reeks, dingle bay, gap of
dunloe [see fw 'her gap of downlow' - also in yorkshire i think] inisfallen
and killarney lakes are in county kerry in the sthwest bottom of ireland
daniel oconnell was the greatest kerryman - kerry: subtropical vegetation:
palms, yuccas, new zealand flax killarney one of the worlds great tourist
centres blackest chapter in irish history - desmond wars - under elizabeth
- complete devastation brandon bay in kerry - st brendan - 'the ulysses
among irish saints' - the gulf stream has always brought nuts and weeds
to ireland from the new world - [the recent 'reproduction' voyage of st
brendan's leatherboat voyage from brandon bay which succeeded in getting
to north america, despite the gulf stream, by going up to greenland, where
the current flows west and south, says that brendans book indicates voyages
to
america were not uncommon - hence j's 'wildeism': 'columbus had the honour
of being the last person to discover america' - likely j read brendans
book [in latin] in a dublin library] enyone going west from gibraltar might
get caught in the gulf stream and end up in ireland - alive or dead ireland
looks to me like a fat pregnant parrot wings back crashing into england
- anyway, kerry and cork are the bottom of ireland, the anus and birth
canal of the irish parrot - hence 'gap of downlow' [a propos rien, and
intermissio: what is orange and sounds like a parrot? answer: a carrot
- well, i like it - simple and childish] the five kingdoms of ireland -
munster lienster ulster connaught and meath [tara, the centre] were divisions
made in the milesian time of rule so it seems we might have a history of
attic, ionic, ithacan greeks reeking with violets and brains coming north
and taking over ireland especially the south and then being decimated by
the danes and then elizabeth's mountjoy [mountjoy jail, ?dublin - see the
rann, the rann] because they were too civilised and soft - cf 'lovesoftfun'
and 'soft morning city'] - but contributing a lot to irish history - and
if they werent killed off entirely by then, decimated again by the plague
- if they were so smart, why didnt they invent superior weaponry or another
wooden horse - spending too much time writing plovery blarney lovesongs
in Cmajor [ionic mode] joyce country is over on the west of munster somewhere
- just south of nora's galway - [mayo and galway form the parrot's wings]
[lough neagh, in the middle of northern ireland, is the eye, ards peninsula
east of belfast forms the beak clear as a bell - i am not mad and youre
another!] according to irish minstrelsy 3d ed rev, ed sparling, walter
scott publ, ?1894, the american revolution was largely driven by irish
money and force - the irish revenge against the english - [surprising then
that they didnt get a catholic prez earlier?] e gracehoper hawthorn white
hawthorn white, hawthorn red hanging in the garden at my head tell me simple,
tell me true when comes the winter, what must i do? i have a house with
chimneys four i have a silver bell on the door a single hearth and a single
bed - not enough, the hawthorn said i have a lute, i have a lyre i have
a yellow cat by my fire a nightingale to my tree is tied - that bird looks
sick, the hawthorn sighed i write on paper pure as milk i lie on sheets
of shantung silk on my green breast no sin has snowed - youll catch your
death, the hawthorn crowed my purse is packed with a five pound note the
watchdogs in my garden gloat i blow my bagpipes down my side - better blow
your safe, the hawthorn cried my pulse is steady as my clock my wits are
wise as teh weathercock twice a year we are overhauled - its double summer-time!
the hawthorn called i have a horse with wings for feet i have chicken each
day to eat when i was born the churchbells rang - only one at a time, the
hawthorn sang i have a cellar, i have a spread the bronze blood runs round
my bulkhead why is my heart as light as lead? - love is not there, the
hawthorn said charles causley re gracehoper the grasshopper and the cricket
the poetry of earth is never dead: when all the birds are faint with the
hot sun, and hide in cooling trees, a voice will run from hedge to hedge
about the newmown mead; that is the grasshopper's - he takes the lead in
summer luxury - he has never done with his delights, for when tired out
with fun he rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. the poetry of earth
is ceasing never: on a lone winter evening,when the frost has wrought a
silence, rom the stobve there shrills the crickets song, in warmth increasing
ever, and seems to one in drowsiness half lost, the grasshopper's, among
some grassy hills john keats gracehoper again: animals i think i could
turn and live with animals ...not one is demented with the mania of owning
things ...not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth walt
whitman the ondt [sair sair sullemn and ...wisechairmanlooking 416.05]
the dinosaur behold the mighty dinosaur famous in prehistoric lore notonly
for his weight and strength but for his intellectual length you will observe
bythese remains the creature had two sets of brains one in his head [teh
usual place] the other at his spinal base thus he could reason a priori
as well as a posteriori no problem bothered him a bit he made both head
and tail of it so wise he was, so wise and solemn ***** each thought filled
just a spinal column if one brain found the pressure strong it passed a
few ideas along if something slipped his forward mind twas rescued by the
one behind and if in error he was caught he had a saving afterthought as
he thought twice before he spoke he had no judgements t revoke for he could
think, without congestion, upon both sides of every question oh gaze upon
this model beast defunct ten million years at least bert leston taylor
did j see this? did bert write this in time for j to see it? re violets
and humility and undistinguishment as the greatest humanity to my infant
godson my infant godson, i would teach you other things besides the lords
prayer in the vulgar tongue to learn along the years that lead to manhood
small lowly lessons, the unvirile virtues so now i wish you only humility
may you hear sometimes, in those unrecorded hours between midnight and
morning, when old men die and young men dance and babes whimper for the
breast, hear the pityfilled laughter of angels for all the masculine magnificence,
the pomp of epaulets and orders, mitre, gown and wig to clothe the uncertain,
shivering, naked form of man, proud man choose humility, choose it if you
dare to stand without the fancydress support of platform dignity, cockedhat
importance now you have two short names, titles enough to serve your god
with and love your neighbour may you live long in meekness, unrewarded,
and may there be no obituaries at your death carla lanyon lanyon the man
beneath the tree nothing is so far as truth nothing is so plain to see
look where the light has married earth through the green leaves on the
tree nothing is so hard as love love for which the wisest weep yet the
child who never looked found it easily as his sleep nothing is as stange
as love love is like a foreign land yet its natives find their way natural
as handinhand nothing is so bare as truth the lean geometry of thought
but round its poles there congregate all foliage, flowers and fruits of
earth oh, love and truth and i should meet sighed the man beneath the tree
but where should our acquaintance be? between your hat and the soles of
your feet sang the bird at the top of the tree judith wright hunter trials
its awf'lly bad luck on diana her ponies have swallowed their bits she
fished down their throats with a spanner and frightened them all into fits
so now shes attempting to borrow do lend her some bits, mummy do ill lend
her my own for tomorrow but today *ill be wanting them too just look at
prunella on guzzle the wizardest pony on earth why doesnt she slacken the
muzzle and tighten the breech in his girth? i say mummy theres mrs geyser
and doesnt she look pretty sick? i bet its because mona lisa was hit on
the hock with a brick miss blewitt says monica threw it but monica says
it was joan and joans very thick with miss blewitt so monicas sulking alone
and margaret failed in her paces her withers got tied in a noose so her
coronets caught in the traces and now all her fetlocks are loose oh its
me now im terribly nervous i wonder if smudges will shy shes practically
certain to swerve as her pelham is over one eye oh wasnt it naughty of
smudges oh mummy im sick with disgust she threw me in front of the judges
and my silly old collarbones bust john betjeman dfellow page 301 - fellow
is the pidgin way of forming adjectives from nouns - but it can also be
taken the other way sadguru or satguru is the teacher of sat or sad, which
is truth, eternals, changeless, timeless thing[s so sadfellow is truthfellow
or mr. true - as well as sad-fellow - which reminds of man of sorrows sad
is russian garden, hence garden-fellow or mr garden-y - which suggests
god in the garden of eden in the cool of the evening pidgin is also at
brassenaarse fw 301.02 - arse is pidgin for foundation or ground - so,
in pidgin, god is the arse of the world - see enc brit 'pidgin' - this
dr seems to be the doctor who heals the world from the wasteland - leech
[302.01] is used for christ long or belong is used in pidgin for all prepositions
- so prince philip is fellow belong queen = husband of queen stop long
ground then would mean stop on the ground, remain on the ground - ie, his
reaction to the flow of time is to cling to the earth, the solid. the material,
or to turn away from time to space - shaun is a spatialist or stop at ground
[level] wherapool is a poem in itself, and the word comes to a long slow
cool end - which is exploded by the pistolshot of gayet and the rabbit-down-the-rabbithole
hurry shem-dolph has just pointed his pointer at the mother hole - knowledge
has occurred - the sacred has been breached - the button has been pressed
- the time machine whirrs into power - as in many presentday children's
films for some reason - it seems people on a deep level see that time is
the dangerous whirlpool mother that sucks us in - the cycle of life begins
- esau and jacob twins fall down into the dream the wonderland the illusion
- innocence is gone - the boys have seen the holy of holies - have lifted
the veil of isis - are becoming men - shaun-kevin finds this dirty and
retreats to infantilism and the mothers breasts [much 'nicer'] [swift:
a nice person is a person of nasty ideas - see bartletts fam quotations]
but shem completes the fall - 'i am willing to make a great mistake, a
mistake as long as eternity too' - he becomes man and husband and is dragged
down into materiality into mundanity into muddying his spirit - but this
is the lovedeath that leads to resurrection - he is the seed that falls
into the ground and dies - he becomes the men in ch 12 who drown in marriage
- but are fertile - they go on to suffer hce's fate - be supplanted by
sons, lose their daughters - but feed the world with their flesh and have
new life for their death - but abstainer squeamish shaun, the unprodigal
son, never knows his father's unconditional love, the love that is there
when you break the laws shem is all the scientists who studied the world
from scratch instead of building a pure castle of sterile ideas in the
air - bacon, postivists, empiricists and all poets too agape-love-caritas
nigel best ba dipnzls